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Ford's Mark Winterbottom leapfrogged teammate Will Davison to second in the standings after finishing behind Whincup with Holden's Garth Tander coming home third.
Davison, who now finds himself third in the title race despite having the most race wins (six) this season, had a tough day to finish 12th in the 72-lap race.
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People who use bad analogies are just like child rapists.
"In fact you could argue that, by our refusal to face the truth about climate change, we are as guilty as he is — we are in effect locking our children and grandchildren into a world with no future and throwing away the key," he wrote in the letter entitled "following our dream," distributed around the Diocese of Lichfield.
Doesn't sound that far off to me - that is precisely what Exxon and others who intentionally sow false information about global warming are guilty of. Whether those who stand idle are equality as guilty is more difficult to say.
By the way, as you can see from the above quote, if you want to be accurate about it, the comparison was to the kidnapping and holding hostage- not the raping, as your title implies. Although one could certainly argue that the raping the Earth would similarly be apt.
Mark, I will be happy to buy in to the man-made global warming merry-go-round as soon as someone explains why all of the rest of the planets in our solar system are experiencing rising temperatures. Until that can be explained I will continue to call BS.
The science is far from settled re both warming and cause and effect. The models cited by those with no understanding of modeling are deeply flawed. And there's been zero discussion of the cost of the reformers' plans. No small factor in a slowing global economy. It is a yelling fire in the movie theater, incendiary statement that should not have been made. Or in recognition of Mursell's tactic should I compare him to Goebbels?


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He has a bachelor of arts in anthropology from the University of Washington and a master of arts in historic preservation from Goucher College. He was director of the Suquamish Museum from 1984 to 1990, and has served on the museum Board of Directors since 2010. He was a research archaeologist for Larson Anthropological/Archaeological Services in Seattle from 1992 to 2003.
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So it should be no surprise that the little people sprung from my loins feel the same way, should it? Huhn-uh. No surprise at all. We're very lucky to have a minor league baseball team that calls our city home. I've been a baseball fan ever since I can remember. There's a fabulous cart in the stadium selling dogs and brats you can smell before you've even pushed through the turnstiles. And we can always count on a soft pretzel pebbled with fat grains of salt and wrapped in wax paper to shield our hands from the heat. Dripping mustard and cheese. Nothing like a sunny day, baseball with pretzels, dogs, and beer.
Or perhaps the crisp days of autumn. Football games. Fortunately we live in a college town with plenty of football madness. And driving distance from "my" school. And two to three hours drive from three pro stadiums. Be it the walk to the stadium or tailgating outside - you can smell the fat and spices in the air and hear the sizzle as they turn brown over the fire. Slather on the goodies and warm up with a sausage. Walk into the stadium and grab run to the snack bar at halftime for a pretzel as big as your head. And each child wants their own. Nothing like a crisp autumn day with pretzels, dogs, and beer.
Or maybe winter is ending and a premature dose of spring is in the air. March Madness. College hoops (the only kind of hoops if you ask me - not a fan of pro-basketball). While I love going to a game, I've always watched the Madness from my own (or somebody else's) living room. But this doesn't mean we don't still crave our pretzels and dogs! Oh no. And perhaps...just perhaps...we crave them even more. Since we can close our eyes and feel the rush of crowd, the squeak of the sneakers, the thumping of the ball; it's only natural that we should also crave those familiar foods.
So that is why it was the perfect time to head into the kitchen and combine our two favorites. Fat and chewy soft pretzels wrapped around tasty dogs, smoked sausage, and/or cooked brats. The kids and I made the dough in advance. They helped me roll out the dough, wrap the dogs, and fend off determined hotdog thieves. We all reaped the rewards as we chose our favorite items for dipping (mustard all the way, baby!), poured cold bevvies, and joined the hubs in the living room for what we realized was becoming a family tradition - sports, pretzels, dogs, and beer (or another age-appropriate liquid).
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Prep Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
Cook Time: 12-14 minutes
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Ingredients (8 full-size or 16 mini)
- 8 hotdogs or sausages (of the pre-cooked variety)
- 1½ c. warm water (110-115°F)
- 1 Tbs. granulated sugar
- 2¼ tsp. (1 package) active dry yeast
- 22 oz. (~4½ c.) all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. salt
- 2 oz. butter, melted and cooled
- ~3½ quarts of water
- 1 c. baking soda
- 1 large egg, beaten, with a splash of water
- coarse salt
- freshly ground black pepper
make dough:Combine warm water and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook. Sprinkle the yeast on top of the water and set aside for 5 minutes, until mixture is foamy.
Add the flour, salt, and melted butter. Using the dough hook, mix on low speed until well combined. Increase speed to medium and knead dough until it is smooth and pulls away from the side of the bowl, creating a ball of dough around the dough hook, ~5 minutes or so.
The dough will be soft, pliable, and just a bit sticky. Remove from bowl, form into a ball and place in an oiled bowl. Dust the top with flour, then cover with plastic and let sit in a warm place and allow to rise until doubled in size, ~1 hour.
Place baking racks in the center and upper third of the oven. Preheat oven to 425° F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper, and lightly brush the paper with oil. (Don't skip the oiling - it's important to brush the paper or the pretzels will stick!)
Combine water and baking soda in a large pot and bring to a boil.
While the water comes to a boil, turn the dough out onto a clean, lightly oiled work surface.
If you are using whole dogs, divide dough into 8 pieces. If you are cutting the dogs in half, divide dough into 16 pieces.
You want to make a rope with each piece of dough. Start with the fingers of both hands in the center of the dough, and roll, moving your hands outward as you go. Roll the dough along the oiled surface until you have about a 24" (for whole dogs) or 12" (for half dogs) piece of rope.
Starting at one end, roll the dough around a hot dog gently (without stretching too much), pinching and sealing each end well.
When water has come to a boil, gently lower a few of the dough-wrapped dogs into the boiling water and allow to boil for 30 seconds. Using a skimmer (flat, slotted spatula), carefully remove them and place on the oiled parchment.
Brush with the egg wash and sprinkle each with some coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Slide into the oven and bake until they are a deep, golden brown, ~12-14 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and allow to cool a bit...but serve them warm!
When in doubt, use 2 trays - these need space around them to help the air circulate and brown them better.
If possible, I recommend weighing (as opposed to measuring) the ingredients. I found the weights to be EXACT. This dough is a dream to work with.
These are best enjoyed the same day that they are made. HOWEVER, if you don't eat them all right away, then double-wrap them in plastic wrap and store in the freezer. When ready to serve, remove them from the plastic. Wrap each one well in a piece of foil and bake in an oven preheated to 350°F for ~12 minutes, or until heated through.
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"I think we looked more like a team today," Capers said. "Our goal was to take the game into the fourth quarter and find a way to win. We put ourselves in position to win in the fourth quarter against the hottest team in the league."
This quote is from Monday's Ghronicle. This has been Caper's Philosophy since the Texans inception and will remain that way-by now, every team in the league knows this, making it that much easier to game plan against us. Unfortunately, our worse qtr Sunday was the 4th--multiple sacks,turn overs,16 plays/42 net yds. and-according to Capers-the 4th qtr is the only qtr we'll try to win in if the score has been kept close the other qtrs. It's called 'coaching not to lose.' Trade marks of this genre include keeping the score close-ball control/'eating' the clock up/not taking chances/being conservative/trying to score on final drive if everything else falls into place. We start each game with a small window in which to win that game if the scenario pans out, so sit back and enjoy the games. |
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I agree totally. This is the root of the many problems that continue to plague this organization. I was replaying this same speech in my head on the way to work this morning except I didn't hear Capers say it, I heard it last night from Charlie Casserly on "Inside the Game" on ABC after the news. We need to go into the games with the attitude of blowing someone out..kick ***** and take names!
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I totally agree. It's rather maddening, and it's a loser attitude and approach. I want someone in this organization to go into a game saying, let's go kick some ***, and trounce this team.
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I must admit that I liked Capers .... especially his professionalism and approach to the game ..... but ..... it's starting to wear thin .... he has 13 games left as head coach of the Texans, IMHO
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Heck, MY goal for the game is to make it to the 4th quarter and hope I can stomach it to the end.
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Just 13 more games until good draft picks and a new coach who will fill "needs" rather than "wants"...
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That was a good plan for the first year, but does not cut it now. Coach you need to go into every game trying to dominate and pour on the points. If your goal is to stay close, your setting yourself up for alot of close losses. Losses where a bad call can impact the game. This is not a first year team anymore, however, they are being coached as a first year team and this will no longer work for me. This is the first year, i have truly been dissappointed by this organization, from the new parking, to having us bake in the sun, to the poor performance on the field. I know Mr. McNair will not let this continue.
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The kick *** and take names concept is long overdue for this team. The Colts had no problem w/ that last season after they demolished us in Indianapolis, and in my opinion just ran the score up - those busters Anyway, my signature says it all... WE WANT THIS ORGANIZATION TO WIN. And win consistently.
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Yep. If I can keep it close and make it to the fourth quarter I'm probably going to be able to keep my chicken wings down. That's how I'm measuring success these days.
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I also like Caper's professionalism. Unfortunately that and a dollar will only get you a cup of coffee. I have really rooted for the guy, and the team, to succeed. However I am also growing tired of the same old song and dance.
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I agree too. It's as if we go into the game believing we are overmatched and our only hope is to somehow survive into the 4th quarter with a tie score or being down by 6 points or less. Then, hopefully a miracle will happen and we will pull out a last second victory. What kind of wimpy philosophy is that anyway.
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you must enjoy his 610 weekly show and the 10 references to keeping it close and having a chance to win in the 4th quarter.
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Capers is borderline giddy with his team's performance yesterday.
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I think some some football fans and media people from other parts of the country probably look back at the '92 Oilers as being a "playing not to lose" team, because one of the few things they remember about them was that one game against Buffalo. I know some football fans on here hate to be reminded of that and would like to if they had the chance, but I'm trying to make a point here. The Texans are, IMO, starting to build a reputation right now as being a "playing not to lose team". But, there's going to be a lot more people looking at them that way than there are with the Oilers if Capers either doesn't change (very likely he won't) or doesn't leave at the end of the season.
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I don't like the phrases like "Keep it close," and, "Have a chance to win in the 4th,", but there is another team that likes this conservative philosophy, generally speaking. They like to run the ball a lot and play smash mouth football. They keep the passing to a minimum and, when they have a lead, they are known for burning up clock-time faster than you can count it. That team is the Pittsburgh Steelers.
When I imagine a perfect team, I see more passing, plain and simple. I'm not saying it would be last year's Colts or bring back the pass-n-shoot, but I do see more passing there. However, as I have stated that conservative philosophy can work. Some of the NFL's best teams have been teams with aggressive D and clock burning running games who didn't pass much. When they did pass, they used play action (successfully) and tried to burn you deep. BUT, our running game is not THAT good yet and our pass rush isn't even in the right hemisphere. Furthermore, we have Carr and Johnson. We need to find a way to use Johnson. Right now....we almost need the receivers to stay in and pass block. :brickwall Maybe AJ can stay in and help the left tackle. Now, having defended Caper's philosophy (in general, anyway), I have to say that he's not getting the job done. There's a huge difference between having a philosophy that can work and actually making it work. Even when this team has been at it's best, they have done it OUTSIDE of that philosophy. DD is not the type of back that Capers wanted as a starter and the success of AJ last year does not fit into Capers philosophy. Oh, sure, he'll take it, but he didn't plan for that. The players just did it. In the end, we have a HC who wants to win games by winning in the trenches on both sides of the ball. That's what he wants. He doesn't want to win with skills players, but rather by pure muscle. But, we have a team that is consistantly beaten up on both sides of the line. Can we blame Capers for that? I think I know one thing. Somebody needs to be fired. I'm sick of watching Carr run for his life.
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I feel you have to strut your stuff earlier in the game. Play some long ball, do anything but conservative. Try to build a lead that will break the opponents backs. Knock them on their heels, maybe, then, you can coast with Capers conservative ball. bobby 119C |
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Contrast Caper's attitude with Baylor football coach:
"We take no satisfaction in coming down here and just playing close," Baylor coach Guy Morriss said. "We came here to win this football game. We just didn't execute well enough offensively to beat a good team like Texas A&M." |
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Construction, fueled by the longest sustained period of U.S. economic expansion since World War II, began to lose momentum in 1997. The National Association of Home Builders reported 1.4 million housing starts for the first three quarters of the year, signaling an annual decline of 2.5% from 1996. In August the U.S. government announced that $601.8 billion of construction had been completed, a 5% increase from the 1996 level. Annual spending on public infrastructure continued to grow at a modest pace of 2.3%.
In California the $1 billion, 5.6-km (3.5-mi)-long Cypress Replacement Project opened to freeway traffic in the San Francisco Bay area. The highway connector replaced a double-decked expressway that had collapsed in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. The six-lane seismically resistant replacement was scheduled for final completion in 1998. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California continued work on the $1.9 billion Eastside Reservoir Project, which was designed to double surface-storage capacity for a system that supplied water to 16 million residents from Los Angeles to San Diego. A 986,800,000-cu m (800,000-ac-ft) lake would provide a six-month water reserve if an earthquake severed feeder aqueducts from either the Colorado River or northern California. The utility also continued work, begun in 1995 and scheduled for completion in 1999, on three dams to contain water in a valley 145 km (90 mi) southeast of Los Angeles.
U.S. government proposals for tighter emission standards from power plants, coupled with state and federal moves to deregulate the sale of electricity, spawned the construction of more efficient power plants and retrofits to control emissions from existing coal-fired units. A consortium that was building a 520-MW combined-cycle power plant in Bridgeport, Conn., claimed that the natural-gas-fired unit would emit fewer pollutants than the 80-MW coal burner it was replacing.
American architect Frank Gehry's striking $100 million Guggenheim Museum opened in Bilbao, Spain, in October. A cluster of 11 titanium steel-covered building blocks rose in irregular double curves around a 50-m (164-ft)-high glass atrium.
The world's largest public-works project, Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok Airport, stayed on schedule despite Hong Kong's change in political status in July. The new airport, built on an island, had road and rail links to the city; it was scheduled to open in the spring of 1998. On the Chinese mainland the first phase of the controversial Three Gorges Dam, the largest flood-control and hydropower project in the world, neared completion. (See ARCHITECTURE AND CIVIL ENGINEERING: Sidebar.) Currency fluctuations imperiled Thailand, which was forced to renegotiate contracts with several international engineering and construction firms for work on Bangkok's massive wastewater-treatment upgrade after the baht went into a tailspin in midyear. Malaysian Prime Minister Dato Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad postponed the start of work on the Bakun Dam, a $5.5 billion hydropower project on the island of Borneo. Critics charged that the structure would have generated 2,400 MW of unneeded power while displacing 10,000 indigenous people and destroying large tracts of rain forest.
In sub-Saharan Africa, where 70% of the population was without running water, several components of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, a joint multiyear effort by Lesotho and South Africa, neared completion. Botswana embarked upon a $330 million, 30-year effort to bring water to its agrarian-based economy. It completed the Letsibogo Dam in its eastern sector and advanced the North-South Pipeline, an aqueduct that would transport water some 360 km (225 mi) south to Gaborone, the nation's capital.


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Inside an emissions lab, the precipice of 100 mpg
Pages of notes about Federal Test Procedure 75 are spread before me along with a graph about tailpipe emissions. Oxides of nitrogen, anyone?
The Edison2 Very Light Car has been in the lab throughout May and June. After the Shakedown stage of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize, one of the four Very Light Cars was taken to Roush Enterprises in Livonia. It's being tested to measure fuel economy and to ensure it will meet the Tier 2, Bin 10 limit required in the Knockout rounds. For the Finals in July, the standard is tightened to Bin 8, making the 10-rating seem like Bin Lotta.
My host during the visit was development engineer Burke Davis, who said Bin 8 compares to a new pickup's output.
Davis led a tour and explained the general principles. The building with the test cell probably dates to the 1950s, like Livonia itself, and was rather dim and dingy. But Davis and the rest of the staff were enthusiastic about their work. After finishing engineering degrees at Youngstown State, he applied for his dream job at Roush and got it. This lab is the place for manufacturers to have one-off evaluations done on prototypes. When Edison2 leader Oliver Kuttner insists that the company has large capabilities, this is what he's talking
Davis explains how the FTP 75 works.
"Basically, you put the car on the rolls and you drive a trace," he said.
When I first saw the Very Light Car, it was in a room outside the test cell, and a big fan was pointed at the car's back end. Davis said he'd started the engine earlier and wanted it cooled to ambient temperature before initiating the test with the all-important gathering of cold-start emissions. About three hours were needed to achieve the cooling.
The thermo-coupled exhaust system looked like a seriously ill patient, with probes and bypasses going every which way; the only thing missing was prayerful loved ones at the bedside. Among the most critically important data in the test would be the exhaust gas temperature before and after the catalytic converter. This is what the sensors measured.
Davis took me into the test cell. It can be chilled to 0 degrees Fahrenheit or heated to 120 degrees. The FTP 75 protocol calls for a temperature between 68 and 86 degrees; relative humidity was set at 50 percent. The cost for such a test is $1500, and $200 for modal analysis.
A major manufacturer's preproduction prototype was driven out and parked. There wasn't much to see: the dynamometer's gleaming rollers obtrude slightly from the flat floor. Measuring the resistance against them determines the powertrain's dynamics and enables the computation of fuel economy.
A homely computer monitor sits atop a stand that's angled toward driver of the test vehicle.
The Very Light Car was pushed into the cell, rear drive wheels positioned over the rollers. The front of the car was strapped down.
Davis said that once the engine was started I would have seen just about everything there was to see. The cold-start portion of the test is most critical: the majority of engine emissions occur in the first 90 seconds or so before the catalyst "lights off," achieving peak operating temperature. (Various catalysts are being used during testing, along with different maps for ignition. Exhaust-gas recirculation levels also vary until the most efficient combination of all factors can be achieved.)
Test engineer Patrick Filangi got in behind the wheel and put on ear protectors. He started the little engine and shoved the transmission into gear. (He had trouble getting first.) The rear drive wheels turned against the rollers as Filangi, working the gas pedal, tried to keep the target on the monitor between a pair of lines that bent and wiggled like a highway that leaps from one atlas page to the next.
After shooting a couple of pictures, I left the din of the cell and joined Davis and others in the control room. One screen showed live data about the exhaust gas constituents and the fuel economy. Another showed the target and the trace, which I presumed Filangi was seeing, too.
"Watch out for that hill!" Davis said under his breath.
The modes include not only simulated city and highway driving but also a hilly section that demands some aggressive use of the throttle. The exhaust gas sampling is captured in a large clear bag that hangs from a Horiba CVS-7200S console. (CVS stands for "constant volume sampler.") The contents are analyzed using flame ionization, which couldn't be anything you'd ever want for a pet or small child.
I stayed for about 90 minutes before bidding my hosts good-bye. Inside the building was the 100-mpg horizon.
The Edison2 team finds the Very Light Car ever so close.
The Men of Edison2: Oliver Kuttner's Little Red Book Explains the Very Light Car
At regular intervals, like a jewelry mold, Oliver Kuttner expels another golden epigram. Ideas and insights boil from the founder of Edison2 and co-creator of the Very Light Car.
"The rectangle has run its course," he says, referring to boxy automotive design that, unlike the Very Light Car, encloses the wheels within the body. The next step in aerodynamic efficiency, which the Very Light Car represents, requires the wheels to be freed, to be moved out and away.
Born in Munich in 1961, Kuttner came with his family to the United States during his teen years. Educated at Boston University in management and French, he has a remarkable knack for penetrating to the core of things. For instance, when he heard about Toyota's $50-million stake in Tesla Motors, he scoffed at the official line on the deal, dutifully reported in the press, which held that the Japanese giant wanted to learn how to build electric vehicles from the tiny kiosk of a car company.
Instead, Kuttner sees Toyota wanted to unload its factory in Fremont, California; Tesla has nothing to teach Toyota, because the latter's engineers know the numbers don't add up on EVs. Tesla, backed by the government, can deal with the UAW.
Kuttner has the most beguiling way of leading into his statements. "I suspect it's worth more than the X Prize," he says of the Very Light Car's patented in-wheel suspension. He prefaces his assertions with courtly admonitions. "You must understand that at 100 mpg equivalent the electric cars are putting out 200 g/mi [of CO2] against our 75," he writes in a e-mail.
"Win or not, we feel the innovations we have—we have something to offer the automobile industry," he says. "We like to think what we're doing is very feasible."
Later: "We have no business doing this, second-guessing the auto companies."
And: "We may be a mouse, but we might as well roar."
He explains, "We really have the capacity of a large car company." A team of around 20 suppliers in several states has worked closely with Edison2 in the Very Light Car's development. "Very quickly, the firm with 10 or so guys working away in the factory becomes a firm with the resources of over 60 of the world's better specialists and the facilities to back this up.
"That fact puts this program on the same level as a high quality R&D program at a real quality manufacturer."
He thinks the Very Light Car has a future beyond the X Prize and envisions some sort of flexible manufacturing operation.
During the conceptual stages, he and design chief Ron Mathis thought hard about the VW Beetle and the Citröen 2CV. "The way the world is shifting, we should be thinking of something like that."
Then he mentions Wall Street's race to market electric cars.
"You cannot build the future on magic."
He inveighs against miscalculations in energy accounting.
"The answer is to figure out how to use less, sooner."
What happens when the established manufacturers finally understand that electric cars won't meet performance targets?
"We are the Plan B for how to deal with CAFE."
To describe the Very Light Car, he develops a metaphor about chasing a carrot, namely, the $10 million purse in the X Prize. But instead, through the various innovations the Very Light Car incorporates, Edison2 found "nutrients in the soil."
He says the modularity of the IKEA kitchen designs was an important source of inspiration. So was an entirely new calculation, one that must have derived from his and Mathis's experience in sports car racing.
"Reimagining the way the forces travel in the car" was the breakthrough. "Once you grasp that, a whole new architecture [results]."
The Very Light Car could even be a useful EV platform. "I think, the way we've approached it, we might have a method that'll actually stick."
He believes Edison2 has "stumbled on something big."
And he reiterates: "Edison2 is a team that has physics on its side."
It wasn't a great time for a real estate developer like Kuttner to chase after an automotive breakthrough, he has told a Lynchburg business magazine. But he sees the X Prize as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Telling me that he likes to push things out to the edge, he confesses that on some days he has no money.
"There are days when we make decisions where we throw hundreds of thousands of dollars into the recycling bin. Those days are hard. It is the only way to reach the top of the mountain though.
"You can not imagine how much an endorsement from an experienced and smart person like you means to me when often I am trying to reinvent myself and keep finding money."
One of my colleagues, Robert Cumberford, has already commented after a previous entry:
"I love what they have done, and what I expect will happen in the end, unless there is some America's Cup-type cheating to hobble them. They are on the Only True Path, the one I have tried to follow for about 60 years: Lightweight, low drag. It's the only way."
Kuttner says, "I'm doing the part that I luckily fell into, to do. I don't think I'm any better than anyone. But I'm not afraid to step forward."
The Men of Edison2: Bobby Mouzayck
Bobby Mouzayck was showing me the system for cooling the Very Light Car's passenger compartment. The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize rules require maintaining a reasonable inside temperature, so a cooler of the race-car type has been designed. It consists of a $3 foam chest that's wrapped in cloth of carbon fiber; a plastic tube passes out of a hole and conveys the cool air that comes off a chunk of ice. The ice box sits in the car's nose. This, he said, is a conductive cooler. It's in keeping with the Edison2 philosophy of keeping everything light and simple. And "inexpensive" could be added, but every time I look at one of the four Very Light Cars I find myself thinking, "Wow, there's a half a million dollars!"
Mouzayck is another veteran mechanic from sports car teams. A native of the Atlanta area, he spent time in Colorado at 3R Racing before winding up in Lynchburg. Unlike the other Edison2 teammates, he lives here, too, staying in a loft apartment in the same 300,000-square-foot building where the shop is.
He reported there are a few bars to go out to at night, but complained, "This town is full of virgins."
Indeed, of the five colleges in the city (pop. 73,000), Jerry Falwell A&M, a.k.a. Liberty University—"the world's largest Christian University"—easily exceeds the others put together, boasting enrollment, according to one source, of 12,000 of the best-behaved young men and women in the South. The next largest four-year institution is Lynchburg College, formerly Virginia Christian College, with about 2500 students. When Oliver Kuttner drove me over to Brown Machine Works to see where many custom parts are made for the Very Light Car, he pointed out a Starbucks in a shopping plaza that he said is owned by Liberty. Because the students aren't supposed to go to bars, this coffee shop is one of the busiest anywhere on Friday and Saturday night.
Mouzayck has a "No Virgins" circle-and-slash sign affixed to the wall outside his work area.
He gave me an entertaining tour of the car. The Thermaltake unit that serves as a windshield defroster was "skanked" off a computer.
"It's cheap and cheerful," he said.
The car's wiring harness, with beautiful, delicate white strands, like angel hair pasta dipped in yogurt, weighs only 5 pounds and perfectly represents the ethic of lightness and simplicity that drives the project.
He told about a buddy who works in a Porsche garage and had to replace the wiring in a Cayenne SUV. Altogether, its heft bettered 300 pounds and had to be hauled into the repair bay on a cart.
That's 40 percent the weight of the Very Light Car, fully assembled.
The Men of Edison2: Brown, Jaeger, White
I first met Ron Mathis, the subject of yesterday's blog, when he stopped at David Brown's Charlottesville, Virginia, home for a bowl of lentil soup. Brown described himself as a passionate cook and Mathis as "the team vegetarian." Mathis remarked that the late-evening meal reminded him of his student days. It was a Tuesday and the team had worked especially long at the Lynchburg shop before returning to Charlottesville.
We sat at the table chatting. When it was time for Mathis to go, I walked him out to his car, said good-bye till the morning, and then retired to the guest room in the home Brown shares with his wife Jean, who's a graduate of Ann Arbor's University High School. (Her father was a U-M engineering professor.) She teaches elementary school in the Albemarle County district.
Brown had told me that he's a chiropractor and sees patients on Monday and Friday. He goes with the team to the Edison2 shop in Lynchburg on Tuesday and Thursday. He's also a Charlottesville city council member and has served two terms as president pro-tem, or mayor.
I observed that it would be possible for someone to see him for an adjustment and an easement.
"Good," Jean said, without evident mirth.
The next morning, Wednesday, Brown declared himself an avid reader of the New York Times and talked about his love of the food section, which is always something to look forward to. He ran his fingers over the cover shot and spoke of a favorite writer's adventures in hamburgers.
Mathis, who stays in Kuttner's guest house during the week, arrived in a Volkswagen Jetta TDI. Brown and I got in, and we soon collected Brad Jaeger. A team member since July of 2009, Jaeger was covered in carbon dust and aluminum shavings when Kuttner found him in Doran's shop. Jaeger brings valuable skills, being a 2007 mechanical engineering graduate of Vanderbilt University as well as a veteran driver from Pacific Formula 2000 and Indy Lights. He has also driven in ALMS. He is one of two drivers for Edison2, along with Emanuele Pirro.
Jaeger sat in back with Brown and tried to read "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work," by Matthew B. Crawford. We stopped at a Citgo station along U.S. 29 and tanked up on diesel. Mathis stuck to the speed limit during the one-hour drive. He guided us to the team's shop near downtown Lynchburg. Kuttner, who was born in Munich, has hung a German oil company's vintage sign above the door. The wooden floor inside the old textile factory seemed unique for a race shop. Fabricator Le Roy White agreed when I said it had to be easier on the back than a concrete floor.
He nodded toward the car, saying, "Like a little helicopter, isn't it?"
White, a Southern Californian, goes way back to Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing and Dan Gurney's All American Racers, among others. In midcareer he returned to school, studying photography and cinema at Art Center College of Design, after some misfortune during a race at Milwaukee.
"I had a pit stop that didn't work out too good," he said, a strange and almost playfully wistful note sounding in his voice. "They took me back to California."
Indeed, later, when I was visiting Bobby Mouzayck, White passed through and I studied his gait for some sign of a limp or past injury without seeing anything definitive.
The Men of Edison2: Ron Mathis
The Edison2 Very Light Car team gradually came together after founder Oliver Kuttner first heard about the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize in the spring of 2007. The $10-million purse for achieving 100 mpg or the equivalent got his attention. The prize is divided among three classes of entries; the Edison2 team is the only one to enter all three of them.
By August of 2007, financing the effort himself, Kuttner was brainstorming with design director Ron Mathis on what type of car to build. Chief of race operations Kevin Doran, a sports-prototype racer from Cincinnati, and Barnaby Wainfan, aerodynamics Fellow at Northrop Grumman, joined the project.
The rest of the team—which Mathis called "liberal-leaning"—is made up of die-hard racing guys, while the communications effort is in the capable hands of a chiropractor.
These are the men who, in Kuttner's words, have "stumbled on something big."
It's Baggy Paragraphs's privilege to present them in a series over the next several days.
Ron Mathis, Design Director
"We're basically a race team," Mathis said. "The normal state of a race team is to have everything in pieces." So in other words, I wouldn't be driving or riding in one of the four cars created so far.
The native of southern England explained that, originally, he just needed a job.
Mathis is a 1985 graduate of Polytechnic of the South Bank, now London South Bank University, with an emphasis in engineering product design. While still a student he talked his way into being a fabricator and machinist on the ADA Engineering team that campaigned a Gebhardt-Ford in the FIA World Endurance Championship's Group C2 Sports Prototype class. He tasted success quickly, when the team placed eighth overall and won the C2 class at Le Mans in 1986. Because he was "the only bloke in the place that did any drawing," the design work went through him. He picked up additional valuable experience when he worked on Emerson Fittipaldi's F1 effort.
Mathis came to the United States in 1993. He had found himself divorced, broke, and living at home with his mum when a phone call summoned him to work at TRP Racing, in Covington, Tennessee, preparing "customer cars" that wealthy sportsmen would enter in races. From this fresh start, he landed at Doran Racing, in Lebanon, Ohio, where he worked on projects for Audi, Jaguar, and Dodge. Not only did he contribute designs in the shop, but he also served as race engineer at the track. He led the design of the American Le Mans Series Ford GTR, a project Kuttner spearheaded.
Mathis has come to share Kuttner's obsession with the challenge of winning the X Prize. Much of the concept for the Very Light Car's innovative in-wheel suspension was Mathis's. While there's always room for a breakthrough, Mathis still says, "I think it's important to respect what went before."
He mentions that when a NASCAR Grand-Am Series official named Don Hayward looked at the Very Light Car, he discerned that "one strand of its heritage" was from Frank Lockhart's Indianapolis-built 1928 Stutz Black Hawk land-speed record car.
Mathis's wife and 14-year-old son are in Indianapolis. He usually flies his Beech Baron home on the weekends, a trip of around two and a half hours. He said he acquired the twin-engine plane last fall after a stormy passage over West Virginia in his single-engine Bonanza left him pondering his mortality.
I asked if the Baron does around 200 mph.
"And change," he said.


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Weight, Exercise Routine for Pregnancy?
My sister just found out the is pregnant, and in her eyes has just now really gotten back her figure from her last pregnancy. She was asking me if I knew about good maternity workouts just to keep her in shape so its not so hard after the little booger pops out. Any suggestions, or anything from people who have researched this before would be wonderful... Thanks!!
She currently lifts weights/does body pump, about 2-3 times a week. She also has some problem with her legs; where if she works them out hard they tend to bruise up, and after the bruising heals there are broken capillaries in place of the bruise. - 01-10-2005, 05:30 PM
Pregnant women shouldn't do anything they wouldn't normally do. If she's been doing a routine for a while, continue with it and maybe modify it, but DO NOT increase intensity.
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A Hesperia man suspected of dozens of freeway sniper shootings that sparked concern across Southern California was charged Monday.William Matthew Frye, 40, was charged with five felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism and discharge of a BB device with gross negligence. The Hesperia cable repairman was arrested Thursday after drivers reported seeing him fire at cars on Interstate 15. Prosecutors say he's responsible for dozens of shootings on Inland Empire freeways over the last few months.
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A configuration system allowing for either file or LDAP backed storage. A utility is included as well, 'zcrunner'. It can be used to configure actions and run files using them. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/ZConf-Runner/
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
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To install the port: cd /usr/ports/deskutils/p5-ZConf-Runner/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install deskutils/p5-ZConf-Runner
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Change the way Perl modules are installed, update the default Perl to 5.18. Before, we had: site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18 site_perl/perl_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18/mach perl_man3 : lib/perl5/5.18/man/man3 Now we have: site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl site_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.18 perl_man3 : lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3 Modules without any .so will be installed at the same place regardless of the
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HOUSTON, Texas -- Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (CPChem), Houston, unveiled a new look for its Internet site, cpchem.com, with expanded links to 15 product line web sites, which include product lists as well as some product application information. For certain product lines, MSDSs and Technical Data Sheets also will be accessible online.
According to Joni Johnson, CPChem eBusiness manger, "We've been working to gather information from the multiple product lines that make up CPChem. Previously, some of the products had web sites, while others didn't. Our intent was to develop a uniform way to present our product line and company information for our customers."
The redesigned site also features company news updates, job postings, as well as contact information for CPChem facilities worldwide. For information about the websites or CPChem's eBusiness initiative, contact Johnson at 713-289-4133 or email@example.com.
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CPChem and Pequiven, a subsidiary of PDVSA, agreed to conduct a feasibility study to evaluate the construction of a styrene monomer plant in Paraguana, Venezuela.
Styrene is an aromatic monomer used to produce a wide variety of polymers with diverse end, including carpeting and construction materials. The feasibility study will be completed by year-end with startup of the plant potentially slated for 2007.
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP is one of the world's top producers of olefins and polyolefins and is a leading supplier of aromatics, alpha olefins, styrenics and specialty chemicals.


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A symposium at University of Illinois-Chicago to honor the 80th birthday of Norman Farnsworth. Symposium flyer.
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My Rogue Legacy ends in defeat. I'm close to discovering all of the castle's secrets and I've slain fearsome bosses, each taking me one step closer to victory, but my much-pruned family tree has been reduced to kindling. As I peeled my eyes from the window in which so many generations had perished, I vowed to remember my last and most valiant relation – a giant lich queen with a vampiric sword and a fear of chickens.
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Rogue Legacy Release Date Is… Next Week! Quick!
By John Walker on June 20th, 2013.
My goodness, I've had a good time playing Rogue Legacy. In one of the most enthusiastic previews I've written, I declared that were it not to be a hit there'd be no justice in the universe. I meant it. And now it has a release date so you can play too – and it's next week. 27th June, on Steam. There's a trailer to prove it.
Hands On: Rogue Legacy
By John Walker on May 9th, 2013.
It's foolish to try to predict a hit.
I cannot imagine a world in which Rogue Legacy is not a hit.
There's no question that Rogue Legacy owes a massive amount to Spelunky. But crucially, it's an evolution of the type of game, not a mimic, a festival of completely original ideas on top of a familiar roguelike platformer mechanic. In each new game a castle (and later tower, forest and dungeon) is procedurally generated in gorgeous 2D pixel art, into which your brave hero must venture, gathering gold, blueprints and bonus items, seeing how far he or she can reach before inevitable death. But rather than starting again from scratch, here every death is met with progress.
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By John Walker on April 18th, 2013.
My arrival to Rogue-likes was a late and timid one. I'm a wimp, and fear the ASCII. But games like Spelunky and Dungeons Of Dredmor are my happy place, so the sight of Rogue Legacy has me biting at the screen to get to play. A 2D procedurally generated platformer, packed with dangers of death, but this time should you die, you pass on your knowledge to your children. Children who are… unique.


text: Gregory Weatherspoon Muskegon Heights schools has lots to do as charter company departs By Lindsey Smith • Jun 26, 2014 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Mosaica Education, the charter company running Muskegon Heights schools, only has a few days left in its contract. But the district still has lots to do to get everything in place for the fall. Last night the district hired its superintendent at a special board meeting. But it still has to finalize agreements with a staffing agency to hire all of its teachers and few other vendors by Monday. This summer it has to finish building repairs, and rearrange all the grade levels because an elementary school building will close. Emergency manager says new arrangement at Muskegon Heights schools will be more economical By Lindsey Smith • Jun 17, 2014 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Muskegon Heights schools' emergency manager thinks a new setup to run the district next year will be more economical than hiring another charter company. For the last two years, a for-profit company ran Muskegon Heights schools. But it ran into cash flow problems. The state had to give the district two cash advances this spring to pay staff and give it an emergency loan to keep schools open through the end of the school year. "We are in a survival mode," Muskegon Heights schools emergency manager Gregory Weatherspoon said at a press conference Tuesday. "We will go for whatever will work and save us money and this was a cost savings to us," he said. State leaders question oversight role when charter companies run entire school districts By Lindsey Smith • Jun 9, 2014 MichigansChildren / YouTube State Superintendent Mike Flanagan says the consequences of turning entire school districts over to for-profit charter school companies deserves more consideration from state lawmakers. Flanagan told a state panel last week it's not clear if the Muskegon Heights school district, or the for-profit charter company that ran it the last two years, will face any consequences for running up a deficit big enough to require an emergency loan worth $1.4 million and two cash advances to keep schools open through June. It's unclear exactly what the deficit is for the 2013-2014 school year. The Muskegon Heights school district is now looking for a new operator. That's after the district and its emergency manager agreed to end its contract with Mosaica Education Inc. when the company couldn't turn a profit. "Now that (Mosaica) is leaving, they pretty much told us they're not going to do (the district's) deficit elimination plan. To follow up on that, we should wait for the new management company and deal with them," Dan Hanrahan, Michigan Department of Education's director of state aid and school finance, told the panel. Already run by emergency manager, Highland Park schools face new budget shortfall By Lindsey Smith • May 15, 2014 Steve Carmody / Michigan Radio Despite a previous state takeover, a slew of surprise costs and a dramatic drop in student enrollment have led to a new budget deficit for the public school district in Highland Park. A multi-million dollar deficit prompted a state takeover of Highland Park Public Schools in 2012. The state appointed emergency manager restructured the district's deficit into long-term debt with over $7 million in emergency loans from the state. The manager created a new charter school district to educate students. In 2012 The Leona Group LLC., a charter company,was hired to run the entire district for an annual fee of $780,000. But now the district is running a deficit again. Charter school CEO says Muskegon Heights schools owes company $2 million By Lindsey Smith • Apr 21, 2014 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio The Muskegon Heights charter school district owes the company that's operating its schools a little more than $2 million. That's according to Mosaica Education's CEO. The new charter district was created in Muskegon Heights when severe cash problems prompted a state takeover of the traditional school district by an emergency manager in 2012. Now the charter district is having cash flow problems of its own. Officials confident Muskegon Heights schools will meet payroll, but no solution yet By Lindsey Smith • Apr 7, 2014 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio State officials and the Muskegon Heights School Board are trying to figure out how they'll be able to pay staff for the rest of this school year, although the district's emergency manager is "confident" they'll work something out. New state consultant to work with struggling Pontiac Schools By Sarah Cwiek • Oct 15, 2013 The former emergency manager of two Michigan school districts is moving onto help Pontiac schools. Donald Weatherspoon was the emergency manager of the Highland Park and Muskegon Heights schools. Now, he's a consent agreement consultant for the Pontiac schools. The Pontiac school board chose to enter a consent agreement after a state review found the district was in "fiscal stress."


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Caterpillar fungi (Cordyceps) - rare parasites found on hibernating caterpillars in the mountains of Tibet, are offering new hope for sufferers of asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, renal failure and stroke damage.
For centuries they have been highly prized as a traditional Chinese medicine - just a small amount can fetch hundreds of pounds.
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have been studying how this fungus could work by studying cordycepin, one of the drugs found in these mushrooms.
They have already discovered that cordycepin has potential as a cancer drug.
Now, they have found that it could also have anti-flammatory benefits with the potential to help sufferers of asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, renal failure and stroke damage.
The research, led by Dr Cornelia de Moor in the School of Pharmacy, showed that cordycepin reduces inflammatory gene products in airway smooth muscle cells - the cells that contract during an asthma attack.
Several studies have suggested that cordycepin could be an effective drug for a variety of conditions, including cancer, stroke, kidney damage and inflammatory lung disease but until now it was unclear how cordycepin could bring about so many different beneficial effects at the cellular level.
"We have shown that cordycepin reduces the expression of inflammatory genes in airway smooth muscle cells by acting on the final step in the synthesis of their messenger RNAs (mRNAs) which carry the chemical blueprint for the synthesis of proteins. This process is called polyadenylation," said Dr de Moor.
"Commonly used anti-inflammatory drugs either work much earlier in the activation of inflammatory genes, such as prednisone, or work on one of the final products of the inflammatory reaction (e.g. ibuprofen). These findings indicate that cordycepin acts by a completely different mechanism than currently used anti-inflammatory drugs, making it a potential drug for patients in which these drugs don't work well," she noted.
However, Dr de Moor said, it is surprising that cordycepin does not affect the synthesis of mRNAs from other genes, because nearly all mRNAs require polyadenylation.
Dr de Moor's research suggests that this is because inflammatory genes can be very rapidly induced and that cordycepin has its many and varied effects by altering the synthesis of other classes of rapidly induced genes as well.
If this is true if could be said that cordycepin slows down the rapid cellular responses to tissue damage and may work by preventing the over-activation of these responses, which are associated with conditions such as asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, renal failure, cancer and stroke damage.
However, it also indicated that cordycepin could have adverse effects on normal wound healing and on the natural defences against infectious diseases.
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I don't consider a pick a bad pick if it's used on a player with no previous history of injury who later gets hurt. That's why I can't look at Bennie Joppru or Charles Spencer as bad picks. They weren't bad picks. They were picks that turned out bad due to factors no one could have foreseen.
Honorable Mention: Dave Ragone
So exactly why did we need to take a QB in the 3rd round in our second year of existence when the team was filled with holes and any pick, at any position other than QB would have made more sense? And why exactly did we take this guy? Not only was he not capable of playing at this level (went to camp with the Rams and didn't catch on with anyone, ever again) but we needed so much more help in so many more places. 3rd round picks were too valuable to pull this bull**** with in 2003. This is one of those early decisions that made you wonder about the Texans brain trust.
5. Antwaun Molden
Even as I type this I'm tempted to drop him down to 5 and bring Ragone up to 4. Molden was the guy you could never be sure about. Never sure about anything. Did he not pan out with the Texans or did the Texans fail to develop him? The world will never know but when we needed help in the defensive backfield as badly as we ever had and the cupboard was as empty as it possibly could have gotten Antwaun Molden couldn't do jack **** here. He's bounced from New England, to the Giants, and to Jacksonville since then so I'm inclined to think it's Molden and not us. Granted he was a never could stay healthy guy and I said that I didn't want to penalize picks for that but it's not like he had a monster career-killing injury. Instead he had a collection of dings and dents that he couldn't play through. In a league where everyone plays hurt when it matters he couldn't. He hasn't done anything anywhere else either. Waste of a 3rd round pick and an enormous disappointment.
4. Tony Hollings
This is what desperation does to people. They blow a 2nd rounder in a supplemental draft on a guy who goes on to knock out 149 yards total for a 3.0 yard average and never even sniffs the end zone. We picked up Hollings in 2002 when James Allen and Jonathan Wells proved incapable of reaching 4 yards per carry. Hollings didn't even get on the field until 2003 and when he did he was nothing special. One year later Domanick Davis proved to be about 10 times the running back Hollings was and he came from the 4th round. Look at the second round of the 2003 draft and take in some of the guys who were still waiting to be picked. Guys like Osi Umenyiora, Anquan Boldin, Charles Tillman, Jon Stinchcomb, and E.J.Henderson were taken in that round. We ourselves took the ill-fated Bennie Joppru but we'd have had another shot at 2nd round success that year if we hadn't stupidly blown our other pick on Tony Hollings. The 2002 line was a train wreck in pass protection and it was just as bad at run blocking. The answer was building an offensive line that could have made a difference (Stinchcomb) or drafting a stable mate for Andre Johnson (Boldin). Instead we put another mediocre back behind a lousy line. Good move.
3. Travis Johnson
What a pathetic scrub we managed to find in Travis Johnson. I remember screaming at the radio when Derrick Johnson was somehow still available with the 13th pick. Instead Charlie traded back to 16, gave up a shot at Jammal Brown (Texans didn't need a LT did they?) and Derrick Johnson for the chance to pick up a guy who couldn't bust out on a line as lousy as the Texans were in 2005. He did nothing the entire time he was here. A first round pick who gave us 2 sacks in 38 starts. Honestly now, was anyone excited when we drafted Travis Johnson? Anybody?
2. Amobi Okoye
Okoye being picked in 2007 was very much in the same vein as Travis Johnson in that we left a lot of talent on the board and instead took this guy. Unlike TJ though Okoye was a huge project. If memory serves he was only 11 years old when he started his first game for the Texans and every year he played here we got an update explaining that he wasn't done growing and should really be in his "junior year of college" for example. He gave us 4 years, 11 sacks, and we got to watch him grow up and fall farther behind other players from his draft every year. This is why you don't waste first round picks on projects who aren't done growing up. Okoye was weak when compared to other NFL players and was easily pushed around by offensive linemen. I used to call him "The shopping cart". What's worse is he was taken before very obvious stars like Patrick Willis and Darrelle Revis. Watching the Texans take him when so many "ready to play" players were waiting there was truly an epic WTF? Moment.
1. David Carr
Worst pick in franchise history. Set the team back easily 5 years and his inability to read a defense, remember where the line of scrimmage was, or sense pressure kept the Texans building and rebuilding their offensive line the entire time he was here. You build a football team from the lines out and Julius ****ing Peppers was standing there for the taking. It's not possible to screw that up worse than the Texans did. Then they started him from day one no less. Assuming that David Carr could have ever become even half the player that the Texans seemed to think he was putting him out there from the very beginning was like buying an expensive Ming vase and then using it to decorate your local preschool playground. This is why I think Casserly, Capers, and Palmer should never again be able to make decisions on personnel in the NFL. Someone should always be there next to them with a "No, we're not doing that" card. You know you have no offensive line. You know that they suck more than anyone could have ever imagined. You still put the most valuable asset you own (the guy that crap line is supposed to protect) out there and think he's going to be ok? Then when it's obvious that he's not going to be ok you leave him there. Incredible.
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Narasimhan, SV and Mallick, Nandini Basu and Chaitanya, Ratana (2008) Improved phase estimation based on complete bispectrum and modified group delay. Signal, Image and Video Processing .
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In this paper, a new method for extracting the system phase from the bispectrum13; of the system output has been proposed. This is based on the complete bispectral data13; computed in the frequency domain and modified group delay. The frequency domain13; bispectrum computation improves the frequency resolution and the modified group delay13; reduces the variance preserving the frequency resolution. The use of full bispectral data13; also reduces the variance as it is used for averaging. For the proposed method at a signal13; to noise ratio of 5dB, the reduction in root mean square error is in the range of 1.5 to 713; times over the other methods considered.
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The Salmon Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant serves about 36,000 households and an estimated 77,500 Clark County residents living inside the Clark Regional Wastewater District and the city of Battle Ground.
Public Works operates and maintains the plant, along with its pump stations and regional interceptor sewer lines. The department's goal is to operate the system in a safe, dependable and cost-effective manner that meets all environmental regulations.
The Washington State Department of Ecology last year recognized the plant for 100 percent compliance with laws and regulations to protect the environment. The award marks the seventh year in a row the Salmon Creek plant has been recognized for perfect compliance. It also is the 14th time the plant has received the award since the program began in 1995.
In 2009, the plant completed an expansion that increased its peak capacity to 14.95 million gallons a day, considerably more than its average daily flow of 7.06 million gallons in 2013.
In June 2014, the Board of County Commissioners agreed to transfer the plant to the Discovery Clean Water Alliance, a regional sewer partnership involving Clark County, Clark Regional Wastewater District and the cities of Battle Ground and Ridgefield.
The transfer will take place at the start of 2015, although Clark County will continue to operate the plant for at least another five years, through 2019.
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Kendall Berry
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Age at time: 22
Weapon: unarmed
Quentin Wyche
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Age at time: 22
Weapon: scissors
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Location details: FIU campus recreation center in Miami, Miami-Dade County, on March 25, 2010
What happened: Quentin Wyche, a student at Florida International University, fatally stabbed a 22-year-old football player during a fight on campus. Earlier that day, Wyche had argued with Kendall Berry's girlfriend, who worked for a campus golf cart shuttle service. Wyche threw a cookie or smashed a cookie into the woman's face, witnesses told police. Later, Wyche and Berry circled each other as if they were about to fight until Wyche ran away, witnesses said. A student told police she saw Wyche grab a pair of scissors out of his backpack and run back towards Berry. He then stabbed him in the heart.
The outcome: Judge ruled that Wyche failed to show that he reasonably believed his life was in danger when he stabbed the man. He faces a second-degree murder charge.
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Trayvon Martin's death became controversial because circumstances leading up to the shooting cast doubt on who was to blame. The Tampa Bay Times reviewed other "stand your ground" cases for similar circumstances. The Times relied on available information, some of which may not tell the whole story. When the situation was unclear, that was noted.
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Recent analysis show that Endosulfan residues remain in sediments at drinking water sources in some villages of Kasaragod district though their presence in water is below detectable levels.
Studies done by the State Council for Science, Technology and Environment, on orders from the government, reported that Endosulfan was still present in soil and sediment in and around the estates of Plantation Corporation of Kerala; ten years after the company discontinued aerial spraying of the pesticide in its plantations.
Endsoulfan was present in ponds and surangams (a horizontal well usually dug into hard laterite rock formations). Surangam is a traditional water harvesting system commonly used by people of the district.
The Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), Kozhikode, and Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON), Anakatty, analysed water, soil and sediment samples from 11 villages of the district exposed to the spraying of the pesticide. Endosulfan was detected in at least one of the soil or sediment samples collected from all those villages. (The villages surveyed are Badiyaduka, Bellur, Muliyar, Enmakaje, Karaduka, Kumbadaje, Ajanur, Kallar, Panathady, Kayyur-Cheemani and Pullur- Periya).
The concentration of Endosulfan detected in water samples was lower than in sediment or soil samples and was within the safe limits prescribed by the World Health Organisation. (The latest view among scientists is that there are no safe limits for endocrine disruptors such as Endosulfan). They were reported as below detection level of one part per billion.
The research team from CWRDM had collected 20 sediment samples from the panchayats including some depth samples. Endosulfan was detected in 11 samples. The maximum concentration of Endosulfan detected was in the sample from Kallar panchayat (6.22 microgram/Kg). The source of sediment was a valley slope where the runoff water from the nearby plantation area got clogged and sorted down. Of ten soil samples collected, Endosulfan was detected in six samples.
SACON detected Endosulfan in five of ten soil samples collected and four of the 20 sediment samples collected. The maximum concentrations were detected from Bellur (25.96 microgram/Kg) and Kallar (20.85 microgram/Kg). The CWRDM reported a high value of 16.91 mcirogram per kilogram in sample collected from near the helipad in Periya plantation. The site was primary used for cleaning as well as filling pesticides into the sprayers of helicopters. Spraying was continued from the late nineteen seventies to December 2000.
Endosulfan sulphate, metabolite of endosulfan, was detected in two of the 30 soil and sediment samples collected. Endosulfan suphate is of comparable toxicity with Endosulfan and the estimated half-lives for the combined toxic residues range from nine months to six years, the study report said. Endosulfan is more persistent in acidic environment and all water, soil and sediment samples showed acidity.
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Junya Watanabe Spring 2013
Talk about sportif: Junya Watanabe's collaboration with Puma has clearly had an impact on his main collection for Spring 2013 — so much so that he put pieces from that collaboration on the runway.
While the capsule collection, with its high-top sneakers and garments made from tech fabrics, was appropriately athletic, the collection itself imagined the very distant future of sportswear. Garments of all kinds had mesh inserts in a variety of colors, and sportswear fabrics were made chic and forward-thinking with sheer overlays and inventive, body-skimming cuts. There were a few moments when Watanabe didn't dote on track and field: two little black dresses toward the end of the show were among the most chic variations on the wardrobe staple we've seen all week.
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- The way you shop says a lot about you — Man Repeller


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QuikTrip to close in Sprint Center
QuikTrip is pulling out of the Sprint Center.
From the start, the mini-convenience store was intended to be more of a marketing tool than a moneymaker.
When it opened with the Sprint Center in October 2007, QuikTrip also was introducing freshly made sandwiches, salads and wraps from its new QT Kitchens and the venue was a quick way to get the word out. The store offers a limited selection but the same prices as other QuikTrip stores.
"It was profitable in regards to what we were trying to accomplish. But we never intended it to be like a normal QuikTrip," said Mike Thornbrugh, spokesman for the company. No closing date was available but Thornbrugh said it would be "soon."
The location also was QuikTrip's first time partnering with another venue.
"Our name will still be part of the naming rights," he said.
Sprint Center officials couldn't be reached for comment.
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